First Date writers Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner will pen "Phantom of the Opera" for ABC Studios and ABC network, it was announced Oct. 23.

Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner
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The show — a contemporary reimagining of Gaston Leroux's gothic novel "The Phantom of the Opera," set in the sexy and cutthroat world of the modern-day music business — will be executive produced by Marc Cherry and Sabrina Wind and their Cherry/Wind Productions.

The show will not be a musical series, but it will have musical elements à la ABC's "Nashville."

Zachary and Weiner's First Date will have its international premiere in Tokyo this fall, followed by productions around the world. Their latest Broadway-aimed musical Secondhand Lions had its world premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre last year and is being produced by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.

The team is also writing a stage musical based on the New Line Cinema feature "17 Again."